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Remove special characters

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Former Member

‎2007 Nov 29 12:49 PM

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Hi. Is there any way to remove special characters like

'

or

`

 or

´

 from a string.

I mean convert:

tést

 into

test

 for example

Thanks in advance

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JozsefSzikszai
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‎2007 Nov 29 12:51 PM

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hi Javier,

use the TRANSLATE command:

TRANSLATE string USING 'éeäaöo'.

this means é will be replaced in string with e, ä with a, etc. the pattern after using can be longer of course

hope this helps

ec

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JozsefSzikszai
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‎2007 Nov 29 12:51 PM

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hi Javier,

use the TRANSLATE command:

TRANSLATE string USING 'éeäaöo'.

this means é will be replaced in string with e, ä with a, etc. the pattern after using can be longer of course

hope this helps

ec